bettered

If they believe change has bettered their lives, 2016 could be another good day for Republicans.

In this case, the embarrassing stumble may have bettered her score.

He regarded it simply as a civil war, by which 'the condition of no nation,' as he wrote later, 'was ever bettered.'

At first my change in bodily build and bettered health rendered me hardly recognisable to my friends.

Not a night but some brown maiden Bettered all the dusk she strayed in, While the roses in her hair Bankrupted oblivion there.

May all men's lot be bettered, all women's sorrow lessened, to whom this tale of woes shall be recounted.

Hodge dropped his nines, which he had not bettered, and that left Merriwell and Snell to fight it out.